1st Edition
Commonwealth Caribbean Family Law husband, wife and cohabitant
Preface
Table of Statutes
List of Cases
Part 1-Preliminary Matters
Chapter 1-Introduction To Spousal Family Law
Part 2-Marriage and the Statutory Non-Marital Union
Chapter 2-Marriage and the De Jure Spouse
Chapter 3-The Statutory Non-Marital Union and the Statutory Spouse
Chapter 4-The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Statutory Non-Marital Union: An Overview
The Breakdown of the Marriage
Chapter 5-Separation Agreements and Judicial Separation Orders
Chapter 6- The Void and Voidable Marriage: Declaration and Decree of Nullity
Chapter 7- Dissolution of Marriage: The Divorce Regimes
Financial Support: the De Jure and Statutory Spouse
Chapter 8-Financial Support : Some Preliminaries
Chapter 9-Financial Support on Dissolution of Marriage or Termination of Statutory non-Marital Union
Chapter 10-Financial Support During Marriage and the Non-Marital Union
Property and Property Adjustment Orders
Chapter 11- The Statutory Regime
Chapter 12- The Common Intention Constructive Trust
Chapter 13- inheritance and Family Provision
Domestic Violence Protection Legislation and Spousal Restraining Orders
Chapter 14-Domestic Violence Protection and Restraining Orders
Biography
Karen Nunez-Tesheira is a family law expert who has researched extensively into family law across the Commonwealth Caribbean. From 2010 to 2014, she was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Cave Hill Campus, University of the West Indies, having previously taught at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad. Between 2007 and 2010, she served as a Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.
